Guantanamo Payments Exceed £12M

It is thought that around £12million is likely to have been paid to the Guantánamo Bay suspects.

This is because the agencies have on average spent £1.5 million a year on losses and special payments over the past five years. The total compensation figure paid to 16 Britons who were suing the Government is likely to be around £14 million, and will have been swelled by payments from other government departments.

The former detainees have denied wrongdoing. In April, The Daily Telegraph disclosed for the first time details of the US accusations against the men, which were contained in files compiled about them in Guantánamo Bay. More Here.

This at a time when the Government are cutting back the armed forces and all public services due to being 'cash-strapped'. This is truly Orwellian now. Reduce the securocracy while paying compensation to those tortured by them and while expanding  already failed military campaigns (Iraq and Afghanistan) by joining new ones (Libya and...............?)